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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some people will always skew things to their kid's advantage. They are not good parents.[/quote]

Right? Particularly those parents that buy houses in historically redlined districts, e.g. the “good” schools. They are not good parents or people. Glad you agree. [/quote]
And don't even get me started on those who feed their kids *Gasp* healthy foods or sign them up for outside therapies, lessons, etc. when there so many people in this country who cannot do that!![/quote]

These are the same folks complaining about parents supplementing with outside sports, music, art and other special interests as well and want to pretend that the school stuff is equal.[/quote]

Redshirting is not equal to external supplementation. In fact, it is far less harmful to other students than external supplementation. I thought all you anti-redshirters were screaming about how redshirting parents were doing things that harmed other kids (though in the case of redshirting, there isn’t evidence of that, unlike supplementation). But I guess the truth is that you are fine with harming other kids when it comes to doing something that advantages your own kid.

Such overt hypocrites, the lot of you. [/quote]

How is supplementing harmful to other students?   If you are holding back a child due to their needs, one should help with those needs.   Not just ignore it and hope it goes away.   I could see doing it for a child in daily speech and daily ot, for example, but not because a parent says they are immature as kids are not supposed to be mature at age five and they will not gain maturity being placed in a younger peer group.   The expectations for them are dumped down but if you know there is an issue you are failing them as a parent by not getting them help as soon as you see the problem.

If others enrich their kids and you choose not to, that’s on you too.   Not the kid.  [/quote]

There is a lot being written about this now. The essential theory is that outside tutoring drives inequity in classrooms (some argue substantially) because it provides those students with educated and wealthy parents a  huge leg up on the curriculum. Then, kids who wouldn’t be behind according to the standards but who don’t supplement will be classified as “behind,” when in fact they are doing fine, just not taught all the subject matter ahead of time.

I didn’t do a deep dive for links but here is a short interview out of the Harvard School of Education that touches on some of the considerations:

https://www.gse.harvard.edu/ideas/news/21/05/rapid-rise-private-tutoring

The role and impact of external tutoring and supplementary education is being widely discussed in education these days (unlike redshirting, which is a non-issue).

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You do realize that parents can tutor young kids.  It's not rocket science.  No reason why if you can read and write and do basic math that you cannot grab a few workbooks and work with your kids.  That's what we did.  We never paid for it.  [/quote]

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